December 10 to 14, 2014.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014.

We are back to Nuevo Progreso for my first appointment to finish my two implants.  The Christmas season is taking its hold.

The Rio Grande separating Texas and Mexico.

In N. Progreso we saw this happy dentist!

 
My dentist, Dr.X or Dr. Xavier Aguirre.  The waiting room.  For those that do not like operations, skip the next few photos!

Today's procedure is to install a piece on to the "nut already in my jaw bone.  Once on the chair it took about 30 minutes and we were out the door.

A little information about dentist in Mexico, they work on "TIM" time.  This simply means "Time In Mexico".  We forgot about that and we arrived early for the appointment but did not get in until 3:45.  My appointment was for 3 pm.  So, if you ever get stuff done in Mexico, make the appointment early in the morning, less chance of TIM.  The dentist did good work.

Thursday, December 11, 2014.

Last evening, I received a phone call letting me know my glasses are ready for pick up.  First thing this morning, I went to Walmart.  While I was there, I also got an oil change for the car.  Everything was done fast so I decided to do some geocaching.
Today was very successful for geocaching.  I found four caches within 1 kilometre.  Here is one of them.

This one is a micro cache and it was under the cover.  Inside the cache, there is a piece of paper and you put your initials.

After I got back home, we have a good lunch and head out to Weslaco to visit a few Thrift Stores.  For me, more geocaching.  It is warming up.

I found this one with Michele.

With Michele happily in the Thrift Store, I set out to find some more caches in the little town of Weslaco.  I like this cache because it has my brother-in-law's name...

It was hard to see, but I did find it!

The next cache was a little different.  My Magellan GPS indicated the wall and I looked and looked!

Until I finally remember the "Magellan Effect".  Research it on Google for fun!
Across from where the cache was suppose to be...

Yesss! Only 15 feet more to the east and under the stairs!

The Texas street in Weslaco.

Sadly, many shops are closed!

This is just a nice building at the corner of Texas St and Bus 83.  It was a hotel, but now it is mostly boutiques.

Back home Michele goes to the pool and I sit outside of the pool!

  Friday, December 12, 2014.

I am going by myself to Mexico for my next dentist appointment.  They are taking in-prints of my lower and upper teeth with the "posts" installed so they can make the two new teeth to put on the posts.  Less than an hour later, I am back at the car.

My next appointment will be on December 26, yes right after Christmas, it will be to put the posts and the new teeth!

Saturday, December 13, 2014.

Another cloudy day!  It is not cold, it is + 25 C, but the wind makes it feel cooler.

Off to the flea market in Weslaco.  We are not impressed by this flea market.  On our way to Walmart to fill up the car, we drive by this bank, which shows the time, the temperature in Fahrenheit and surprise, the temperature in Celsius!!!  They know a lot of "Winter Texan" are Canadian!

Only $0.595 per liters, even with the exchange rate it is cheap!

I am trying the pool one more time, but I will skip the hot tub.  More to follow.

Sunday, December 14, 2014.

This morning, I am taking the car and the bike to the little town of San Juan for some Geocaching.  Of course, I will park the car and used the bike to go around looking.  Sadly, it was not one of my best days for geocaching.  I found on one out of four!

It is a little depressing.  This is one of the places I did not find the cache :-(

As usual, on y way back to the car, I got a flat tire on the bike!  I think I have found the ultimate solution, no, it is not not to bike anymore!!!
Off the tire comes...

I bought a new tire and cut the sides...

I place the new "cut" tire inside the tire from the bike.  The result is now I have a double thickness tire.  The sand burrs will not get to the tube!!!

Trials tomorrow!

I forgot!  On our way back from the Walmart, a motorhome was trying to back into an easy spot.  Another gentleman told us that the driver could not back up a tricycle!!!  15 minutes later, he was in his spot!

Sunday evening is pétanque.  One of the French players teased one of the English players with a new t-shirt.  Wally was very happy...

My team lost one and won the other game.  Michele's team won both games.

It was a warm day, but very windy.

Until next time.

Life is Good!

5 to 9 December, 2014.

Friday December 5, 2014.

Friday?  What have we done today? Darn, nothing!  Not even a photo to support it.

Saturday December 6, 2014.

It is a special day today!

Happy birthday my love!

Michele is adding a candle to her birthday cake, but there is still a lot of room on the cake!

Today, we are going to a basketball game with Charles and Agnes.  We are on our way to their place.

Here we are.  They have rented this site from a friend who has not been coming for a few years because of health problems.  The site comes with a little house...

After a social drink, we headed out for a walk around the RV Park.  That is if we can call it an RV Park!  Here is what I mean.

This is somewhat difficult to measure, but this lemon is big enough to do four lemon pies!  They are as big, if not bigger then a softball!

What the heck are we doing?  A teakettle!
Charles is the spout and me, the handle!

When you have a beautiful house, you have to have a beautiful "Mexican" in your yard!  It makes the gravel look good I guess!

On our way to the basketball game.
The State Farm Arena is where the Vipers play.

This is our first ever basketball game for the four of us.  The Vipers are the school team for the NBA team of Houston.  They are called the Rockets.  The Vipers are just a step away from playing in the NBA.  Now, to attract fans they have a plan.  After all, this team is not about to make money!  So, every Saturday games, they have a free BBQ with Hamburgers, water or beer, did I say free?

We got two burgers and two beers each and they were good!

On top of the free food and drinks, we got free Vipers T-shirts!!!

Here we are ready to support a team we have never seen!

Not even knowing we took this photo with the other teams mascot!  They are the "Stampede" of Idaho.

The arena can hold 5,500 sports fans either for the Vipers of the other school team, the ice hockey team, the Killer Bees.  The red circle indicates our seats.

Ready for the game!

They also supply the BamBam.

Michele having a great time!!!

One of the many mascots.

The Viper's mascot, Fang!

An elementary school choir sang the national anthem and it was very well done.

Game on!

At the end of each quarter, we have demonstration of the local talent.  I think it is great for the kids.

A moving moment like only the American can do it!  They found a military member in the crowd.  They told us about his carer and simply ask us to pay respect for his service to his country.  Not one soul was sitting. Very moving!  Make you wonder about our country?

At the half time, they had a little competition.  He had to fill the garbage can with ballounes not knowing what they were worth.  Each garbage can was worth between $5, $25 and $50.  He left with $200.

We did not know what that game was until they started to play!  The people in brown are burger buns and the crew is placing condiments to pick up.  The team that complete a burger first wins.

The Vipers won!  Hurrah!  By a score of 135 to 123.  Because the won we have a free Wataburger each.  On top of that, because they won with a score over 120, we also have a free Tacos from Tacos Patenque.

We loved our evening.  Let us recap; our ticket cost $15 each.  We got two burger and two beers free or more if we wanted. Because the Vipers won, we also got a Wataburger each plus a Tacos because they won with a score over 120.
Not an expensive evening! We left the game under rain!

Back at home, we did the traditional birthday ritual for Michele.  Tequilas shooter!  This is for Benoit, our youngest son (26).
The liquid!

We are ready for this!

I have to confess, we had to do it twice for the best photos.  That is bad!!!

Sunday December 7, 2014.

We woke up to a grey sky with a lot of humidity.  Even with a +70 F, the sky make us want to stay home. 

It is an indoor day for us.  I review all the literature we got for the Rio Grande Valley and make a list of what we would like to visit.  It does not mean we will do every single thing on the list.

A boring day weather wise!

Monday December 8, 2014.

Monday and another boring day weather wise.  We hop in the car and went looking for "Ropa" stores.  I guess our tracking talent is not that good because we had a hard time finding them!  Michele is still not sure if she likes it or not.  Back home we started a marathon of TV series.  Michele with season 7 of Dexter and me with season 3 of Hell on Wheels.

Tuesday December 9, 2014.

I am out on a bike ride this morning and doing some geocaching at the same time.  My first cache of the day is a success!

A little closer, can you see the pill bottles?

While looking for a cache in one RV Park, I found another type of homemade bike rack.  What a good idea.

A cute little Red-Bordered Pixie butterfly.

One more cache, this one is a magnetic one.

This is another day without the sun.  I have to keep a positive attitude towards Texas.  I checked Florida and they are no better than we are...

Until next time.

Life is Good!